Case Summaries

Appeal concerning a dispute between a father and son as to the legal and beneficial entitlement to a farm. The Master of the Rolls also comments upon issues relating to judges correcting transcripts of their judgments.

Judgment in re-hearing of fact-finding hearing concerning allegations of abuse following fresh evidence coming to light (Original fact-finding hearing reported as A Local Authority v C [2011] EWHC 231).

Appeal by father against an order for no contact to his daughters A, aged nine and B aged six

Judicial review of local authority’s Special Guardianship Allowance policy. Policy held to be illegal.

Father’s appeal against a residence order that had been granted to the mother. Appeal dismissed.

Supreme Court appeal concerning the liability of a local authority to pay the costs of a party to care proceedings. Held unanimously that the general practice of not awarding costs in care proceedings against a party, including a local authority, in the absence of reprehensible behaviour or an unreasonable stance, should not be subject to an exception in the case of discrete fact-finding hearings.

Application for permission to appeal Mostyn J’s order which, inter alia, transferred an annulment application to the Family Division

Court of Appeal decision concerning a judge’s power to alter a judgment following a fact-finding hearing after it has been handed down

Appeal in respect of the proper interpretation of Article 56 (placement of a child in another Member State) Council Regulation (EC) 2201/2003.

Application to set aside a parental order by virtue of procedural flaws and contending that, at the time of the order the mother had a concealed intention to separate and raise the child alone.

Application by father that the court should reserve exclusive jurisdiction to itself where parties and children were all habitually resident in Dubai. Application dismissed.

Financial remedies case where the wife sought such provision from the husband that it could only be met if the trustees of trusts (of which the husband was but one of the beneficiaries) were to make resources available.

Appeal by father against order in child abduction proceedings. Appeal allowed on the basis that the order was made as a result of a series of misunderstandings about the litigation history.

Application by father under the Hague Convention in respect of his three sons, alleging that they were wrongfully retained in England, following an order by the French court granting residence to the father. Court declined to adjudicate the application.

Dispute concerning a property held in one party’s sole name without a written declaration of trust and where there had been unequal financial contributions.

Appeal concerning a lump sum order in favour of the wife which had been inflated to include a substantial sum by way of a costs penalty for the husband’s litigation misconduct.